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Matthew Leary

Data Scientist | Veteran | Tottenham Hotspur supporter

I enjoy working with data to find and deliver insights, solve business problems, and build tools that help people work more efficiently. I moved into data science after 10+ years working in public policy and public relations.

Education

M.S., Decision Analytics | M.B.A.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

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  • Distinguished Alumni Award for developing an alumni analytics meetup group

B.S., Political Science

Campbell University

Buies Creek, NC

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Professional Experience

Data Scientist (as of 2020) | Associate Data Scientist

Markel Corporation

Richmond, VA

Present - 2018

  • Data science developer on an agile sprint team managing applications that prioritize and monitor incoming business submissions at a Fortune 500 company
  • Develops, maintains, and deploys machine learning models, primarily GLMs, decision trees, and dabbling in unsupervised techniniques
  • Conducts ad hoc analysis to diagnosis trends, analyze model performance, and make business recommendations based on data and statistical tests
  • Uses Azure DevOps for the continuous deployment of applications to production environments, experienced with establishing and maintaing VMs in Azure
  • Communicates technical matters, such as model selection and maintenance, to business owners and works to advance the analytics capabilities within the company
  • Regularly uses R, Python, Git, SQL, Azure DevOps, and secretly Excel
  • Sources data from databases, APIs, XMLs, JSON, PDFs, free text, etc.
  • R advocate within the organization, exploring the development of internal R packages
  • Co-chairman of the Markel Veteran’s Network, an Employee Resource Group

Legislative and Military Liaison

Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

Richmond, VA

2018 - 2014

  • Advisor to the commissioner and senior executives of an 1,800-person organization, representing the commissioner at the state legislature and senior-level meetings
  • Communicated agency policies to the General Assembly and Military installations
  • Project manager for a study requested by the General Assembly, coordinating with external stakeholders to include state agencies and private businesses
  • Explored automating manual reports and data aggregation with R

Public Affairs Manager | Print Journalist

U.S. Army

Fort Bragg, NC

2014 - 2005

  • Served in a variety of journalism and public relations roles with the 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Military Academy and a Special Forces unit, including two deployments to Afghanistan
  • Managed small, technical teams supporting high-risk training and deployments
  • Provided consequence management planning for more than 20 Special Forces units training off military property, coordinating with law enforcement
  • Named Distinguished Honor Graduate and Distinguished Leader Graduate during two Army leadership training courses